Team Heretics
Team Heretics
Europe
Rank #1
MiniBoo
Dominykas Lukaševičius
Wo0t
Mert Alkan
RieNs
Enes Ecirli
benjyfishy
Benjamin David Fish
Boo
Ričardas Lukaševičius
have welcomed Benjamin "benjyfishy"
David Fish into the team. He joins the team exactly one week before the start of the EMEA LCQ. The two were first linked last month, but the organization has only made the English player official today.
benjyfishy made a name for himself during his time as a Fortnite player for NRG, winning several of the FNCS' weekly qualifiers and top regional tournaments. He made his move to Valorant official last December, when he was picked up by
Enterprise Esports
Enterprise Esports
Europe
Rank #55
jas
Jasiek Nieliwodzki
Kiles
Vlad Shvets
zeek
Aleksander Zygmunt
starki
Krzysztof Lewandrowski
doma
Domagoj Fancev
for their VCL East run.
Enterprise had struggled to make their mark in the 2022 regional leagues, but showed a new face this year. They finished second to
Acend
Acend
Inactive
ALIVE
Gilad Hakim
musashi
Alessio Xhaferi
pyrolll
Artur Minin
cullumx
Nikolaj Cullum Andersen
chiwa
Egor Stepanyuk
— who are fighting for VCT promotion — twice in the Eastern league's two splits. Enterprise still attended the VCT Ascension EMEA Play-In stage, but placed bottom of their group with a 1-1 record due to a small round differential in the tiebreakers.
benjyfishy is joining a Heretics roster that has put up lackluster results this year. An end-of-season move that saw assistant coach Brandon "weber" Weber replace Aleksander "zeek" Zygmunt on the roster was not enough to stop the team from finishing eighth in the VCT EMEA League, barring them from playoffs and leaving them to fight in the regional LCQ.
Heretics' first LCQ outing will be on July 19 against
KOI
KOI
Europe
Rank #29
grubinho
Grzegorz Ryczko
sheydos
Bogdan Naumov
Filu
Dawid Czarnecki
flyuh
Xavier Carlson
soulcas
Dom Sulcas
, against whom they lost in the regular season. The winner will face
Natus Vincere
Natus Vincere
Europe
Rank #16
ANGE1
Kyrylo Karasov
Shao
Andrey Kiprsky
Ruxic
Uğur Güç
hiro
Emirhan Kat
koalanoob
Gianfranco Potestio
in the upper semifinals, but will have to make the grand finals if they are to reach VCT Champions 2023.
The 2023 EMEA LCQ runs from July 19 to July 23 and will draft two of the region's teams to Champions 2023, as a result of
FNATIC
FNATIC
Europe
Rank #6
crashies
Austin Roberts
Boaster
Jake Howlett
kaajak
Kajetan Haremski
Chronicle
Timofey Khromov
Alfajer
Emir Ali Beder
's Masters Tokyo win.
BBL Esports
BBL Esports
Europe
Rank #17
Jamppi
Elias Olkkonen
sociablEE
Volkan Yonal
PROFEK
Dawid Święć
vakk
Vakaris Bebravičius
stand-in
LewN
Burak Alkan
,
Karmine Corp
Karmine Corp
Europe
Rank #160
saadhak
Matias Delipetro
Avez
Hazem Khaled
Elite
Efe Teber
SUYGETSU
Dmitry Ilyushin
marteen
Martin Pátek
, and
Giants Gaming
Giants Gaming
Inactive
Redgar
Igor Vlasov
Fit1nho
Adolfo Gallego
nukkye
Žygimantas Chmieliauskas
hoody
Aaro Peltokangas
Cloud
Kirill Nehozhin
will play alongside the aforementioned teams in a double-elimination bracket. Tickets can be found here.
This year's Champions will be hosted in LA between August 6 and 27 among the 16 best VCT teams.